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Informationen zum Autor John Toye is a political economist who has directed research on economic development at the Universities of Wales, Sussex, and Oxford. He has also worked as a British civil servant, as the director of a private consultancy company, and as a director of the United Nations Committee on Trade and Development. His previous books include Dilemmas of Development (2nd ed., 1993) and Keynes on Population (2000) and he has published numerous academic articles. Richard Toye is lecturer in history at Homerton College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931¿1951 (2003) and co-author, with Jamie Miller, of Cripps versus Clayton (forthcoming). Klappentext It looks closely at the effects of the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, the growing strength of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the 1990s, and the lessons to be drawn from these and other recent developments. Zusammenfassung A dramatic account of the UN's struggle over how best to understand severe inequities in the global economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The UN Trade and Development Debates of the 1940s 2. The UN Recruits Economists 3. Michal Kalecki, the World Economic Report, and McCarthyism 4. From Full Employment to Economic Development 5. The Early Terms-of-Trade Controversy 6. ECLA, Industrialization, and Inflation 7. Competitive Coexistence and the Politics of Modernization 8. The Birth of UNCTAD 9. UNCTAD under Raúl Prebisch: Success or Failure? 10. World Monetary Problems and the Challenge of Commodities 11. The Conservative Counterrevolution of the 1980s 12. What Lessons for the Future? Appendix: List of Archival Sources Notes Index About the Authors About the UN Intellectual History Project ...
